You know the old saying: Australians will bet on just about anything, even two flies crawling up a wall.
Maybe it’s due in part to our intensely competitive national spirit, a willingness to back yourself, if you’ll excuse the punting parlance.
Unfortunately, as a nation, the end result is that we now lead the world when it comes to gambling.
Incredible as it may seem, Australians lose more than $25 billion a year on legal forms of gambling, representing the largest per capita losses in the world.
That’s according to the official government research. And it’s leading to shocking health and social problems.
We may not have invented the poker machine but we dominate the industry.
Local outfit Aristocrat is now the global design and production…